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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Philosophersâ Unprofessional Treatment of Ayn Rand
Description: In this episode of New Ideal Live, Onkar Ghate and Mike Mazza discuss academic philosophersâ dismissals of Ayn Randâs philosophy, and some of the reasons why academic philosophers often fail to live up to the professionâs scholarly standards when addressing Randâs ideas.
Among the topics covered:
The provincial view of philosophy that leads Sidney Hook to dismiss Rand as unsophisticated in his review of her book For the New Intellectual;How Robert Nozick goes wrong in his article âOn the Randian Argumentâ by approaching Randâs inductive arguments as if they were deductive;James Rachelsâs claim, in his widely-us...